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COLONY of NATAL.
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of the Supreme Court in satisfaction of any such penalty; and the vessel may be refused a clearance outwards until such penalty has been paid, and until provision has been made by the master for the conveyance out of the Colony of each person who may have been so landed.
6. This Act and Laws Nos. 3 of 1858 and 4 of 1892 shall be read together as one Act.
Given at Government House, Natal, this fifth day of May, 1897.
By command of His Excellency the Governor,
THOS. K. Murray,
Colonial Secretary.
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Given at Government House, Natal, this Fifth day of May 1897.
By command of his Excellency the Governor,
THOS. K. MURRAY,
Colonial Secretary.
(No. 2, 1897.)
WALTER HELF-HUTCHINSON,
Governor.
ACT, "To amend the Laws relating to Quarantine."
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Natal, as follows:-
1. Whenever any place has been proclaimed under Law No. 4, 1882, as an infected place, the Governor in Council may, by a further Proclamation, order that no person shall be lauded from any ship coming from such place.
2. Any such order shall also extend to a ship having on board passengers who have come from a proclaimed place, notwithstanding that they may have embarked at some other place, or that the ship has not touched at the proclaimed place.
3. Any such order as aforesaid shall be in force until revoked by a further Proclama- tion.
4. Any person who shall land in contravention of this Act, shall, if practicable, be at once returned to the ship in which he came to Natal; and the master of such ship shall be bound to receive such person on board, and to convey him from the Colony at the expense of the owners of the ship.
5. The master and owners of any vessel from which any person shall be landed in contravention of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred pounds sterling for each person so landed, and the vessel may be made executable by a decree
(No.
1897.)
BILL,
(Proposed to be introduced into Parliament by His Excellency the Governor.) "To amend the Law relating to Licenses to Wholesale and Retail Dealers." WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate and control the issue of licenses to wholesale and retail dealers, not being licenses under Act 38 of 1896:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Natal, as follows:-
1. Any Town Council or Town Board may, from time to time, appoint an officer to issue the annual licenses (not being licenses under Act 38, 1896) required in the borough or township by wholesale or retail dealers.
2. Any person appointed to issue licenses for wholesale or retail dealers under Law 38, 1884, or any like Stamp Act, or under this Act, shall be deemed to be a "licensing officer," within the meaning of this Act.
3. A licensing officer shall have a discretion to issue or refuse a wholesale or retail license, not being a license under Act 38, 1896, and a decision come to by a licensing officer as to the issue or refusal of a license shall not be liable to review, reversal, or alteration, by any Court of law, or otherwise than is in the next section provided.
4. There shall be a right of appeal from the decision of a licensing officer to the Colonial Secretary as regards licenses issuable under Law 38, 1884, or other similar Act, and in other cases to the Town Council or Town Board, according to the circumstances, and the Colonial Secretary, or as the case may be, the Town Council or the Town Board, may direct that the license, the subject of the appeal, shall be issued or cancelled.
5. No license shall be issued to any person who, when thereto required, fails to show to the satisfaction of the licensing officer that he is able to fulfil the conditions of the Insolvency Law 47, 1887, section 180, sub-section (a), as regards the keeping of such books of account in the English language as are usual and proper in the business to be. carried on.
6. No license shall be issued in respect of premises which are unfit for the intended. trade or unprovided with proper and sufficient sanitary arrangements, or not affording sufficient and suitable accommodation for salesmen, clerks, and servants, apart from the stores or rooms in which goods and wares may be kept.
7. Any person who shall carry on any wholesale or retail trade or business, or who shall allow licensed premises to be in a condition which would disentitle him to a license, shall be deemed to have contravened this Act, and shall be liable to a penalty of 201. for each offence, to be recovered by any licensing officer in the Court of the magistrate.
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